TATM32 Ordinary Differential Equations, 6 ECTS-points
/Differentialekvationer/

Advancement level:
C

Aim:
The course deals with ordinary differential equations and their applications, and is intended to give a somewhat detailed introduction to the theory.

Prerequisites:
A basic course in calculus.

Course organization:
Teaching is done in lectures and problem classes.

Course content:
Picard's existence theorem. Second order linear differential equations with variable coefficients (boundary-value problems are treated with the Green function). Power-series solutions. Frobenius method for weakly singular differential equations. Sturm's comparison theorems. Systems of linear differential equations, fundamental systems of solutions. Stability theory for autonomous systems. Liapounov's theorem.

Course literature:
Andersson, K.G., Böiers, L-C: Ordinära differentialekvationer.

TEN1Written examination, 4 p.
Course language is swedish.